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Post by swamp on Jun 12, 2013 19:35:58 GMT -5
My college nickname is Swamp and my friends from college still call me that. Swamp is a play on a shortened version of my real name, and I also spent an inordinate amount of time in the pool.
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Post by alabamagal on Jun 12, 2013 19:38:21 GMT -5
The best nicknames have a story behind them.
My youngest is named Jeremy. We called him Jer. Then when the Star Wars that had Jar Jar Binks came out, we started calling him Jer Jer (he was about 4 then). Then it morphed into Jer Bear (because of his personality), then just Bear.
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Post by swamp on Jun 12, 2013 19:45:02 GMT -5
You guys are missing the point that I wasn't given a lot of choices. Lol. My DIL had the first child, but most of my kids' and their spouses' grandparents are still alive. It was Granny Sue or Grandmother Susana. Most the time they just call me Grandmother. GG wasn't an option. A hooker's name, remember? While Mimi (my ex's wife's chosen name) wasn't. Lol. My mom is Bakki to the grand kids. My sister had a polish nanny and Babka is grandmother, so that's how the kids pronounced it.
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Post by Cookies Galore on Jun 12, 2013 20:02:35 GMT -5
You guys are missing the point that I wasn't given a lot of choices. Lol. My DIL had the first child, but most of my kids' and their spouses' grandparents are still alive. It was Granny Sue or Grandmother Susana. Most the time they just call me Grandmother. GG wasn't an option. A hooker's name, remember? While Mimi (my ex's wife's chosen name) wasn't. Lol. Grandmother is still so stuffy! How old are the kids now? Just tell them to call you GG!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2013 20:26:07 GMT -5
The kids are 9, 7, 6, 4, 2, 1, 0, and 0. I think if their parents don't reinforce it, it doesn't work.
My MIL was always called Grandmother. It wasn't stuffy. But I called my mother "Mother."
Maybe that really goes back to really not liking nicknames.
Anyway, it's done. I am just still annoyed that MiMi got her way because she insisted, and I didn't because I am too nice.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Jun 13, 2013 14:55:02 GMT -5
Stop being so dang nice! I know it's over and picked now, that's too bad. I just thought of another grandparent nickname.... Bamba. My cousins call their grandmother that, for years I thought they called her Bama when I was a kid. Made sense to my kid brain..... lol
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Post by Tired Tess on Jun 14, 2013 18:59:25 GMT -5
Almost everyone uses the nickname for my full name whether. I'll introduce myself as (example) Margaret, and people just start with Maggie, Marge, Peggy, etc. THAT'S NOT MY NAME!! I hate correcting these people because I feel I sound rude, but I like my name and I wish people would use it when talking to me .
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2013 19:39:38 GMT -5
Granny Sue, that's a classic. I've noticed a tend though as of late to come up with cutsie names for grandparents, specificaly grandmothers. Like Mamaw or Mimi or Nana. Whatever happened just good old fashioned "Grandma" like we used back in my day. If we needed to identify which Grandma we'd say "Grandma Smith" or "Grandma Jones." We wanted my daughter to call my Mom "Grandma" but DD couldn't say it, it came out "MeMa". My Mom has been MeMa ever since. All her grandchildren call her that. Besides MeMa, you can tell how people know my Mom by what they call her. People she has/had a business relationship with, call her by the first part of her first name. Family and friends call her by the second part of her first name. People often ask if I have a nickname when they first meet me. I don't, but since people have trouble with my name I respond to all sorts of butchered variations. I gave up on correcting people many years ago. Nicknames are pretty common in my family and with my friends and coworkers.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2013 19:54:44 GMT -5
I insisted that I NOT be called anything that started with "Gran". I'd rather just use my first name than be "Grandma" or something. So I'm Nana. I don't always correct people that mispronounce my first name, but I instantly correct anybody that calls me "Grandma". LOL
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Post by Queen of Interesting Nuts on Jun 14, 2013 20:13:10 GMT -5
I want to be nana, it has already been discussed. OOHHHH hi Nana Pink.
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Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on Jun 14, 2013 20:27:57 GMT -5
LOL - I have a relative named Stephanie - and her little nephew could never pronounce it - it always came out as "Snefanie"
My first and middle name are both 3-syllable names and always were shortened. I took on my middle name in my teens because I wasn't too crazy about my first name. My nic for my middle name is Allie (short for Allison) But Allison was also my Mom's name - so family members dubbed me "Tippy".
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2013 20:35:35 GMT -5
I visited my daughter and her kids today and asked again about GG. Nope, not doing. I asked about Grandma. Nope, there are at least two of those already. I'm stuck with Grandmother Susana. Lol. She said she only threatened me with Granny Sue once when I threatened to call her daughter Elizabeth (now called Beth) Lizzie. She has the 7, 5, 3, 0 so I think I am out of luck. Especially since she mentioned maybe having a couple of more! That was enough to shut me up! (But she was perfectly serious.)
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Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on Jun 14, 2013 20:45:44 GMT -5
How about you re-train them to call you "Nanny-Sue"? It doesn't sound so matronly - and it's kind of cute.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2013 22:08:02 GMT -5
But Lassie . . . you missed the point. I HATE (absolutely) the nickname "Sue." I will never change my mind about that. Ever. I could have been Granny Sue from the beginning. But thanks for trying.
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Post by happyscooter on Jun 15, 2013 7:39:50 GMT -5
My name is ssoooo far from my nickname. It's kind of like being named Veronica Betty, but you were the only granddaughter and grandmother wanted you named after her so she called you Samantha Jeannie and it stuck. For years.
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Post by raeoflyte on Jun 15, 2013 13:26:26 GMT -5
My boss calls me valerina which I like. I hate Val!
My nickname for ds is babe, and sometimes he calls me mommy-babe. I imagine he will eventually ask me not to use that, and I don't know if dd will get her own nickname. Right now I just call them my babes, so we'll see. I always thought it was weird when adults call each other babe or baby though.
Ds couldn't say g's or j's for a long time, so my parents are oma and opa. We have an uncle bubba, and uncle dude. My fil only calls my mil honey, so ds called her hunny, and now she's gramma hunny.
My grandfather was ho-ho to the great grandkids because of his beard.
I'd like to be grams if I have grandkids.
Susanna-its never too late! One of my grandmothers was granny to the older set of grandkids, nanny to the younger set, and now gan-gan to the great grandkids.
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Post by Shooby on Jun 15, 2013 14:03:50 GMT -5
When my younger son was about 2, we called his name and he said "No, I Shooby". And, we said what? And, he said "I Shooby". So, we have called him that ever since though at 15 he is none too fond of it. And, when he as fighting one time with his older brother, instead of yelling his brother's name, he yelled "No Tada!" So we call him Tada.
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Post by cael on Jun 15, 2013 17:27:31 GMT -5
I've been Liz since I was about 10 or so, I was Beth as a toddler but that never stuck for some reason. My mother calls me Elizabeth, Lizbee, Lizzie or any variation she feels like. When my brother was a toddler and I was 4-5, he called me Sissy because he couldn't pronounce Elizabeth Some kids I used to babysit called me Fizz forever (possibly still to this day) because I told them a story about a math teacher in high school nicknaming me Fizz. I have a group of 3 friends and we call each other Woman, can't remember how that came about but it was a loooong time ago, lol. My husband has a long Greek name so he's had a short nickname his whole life. My one coworker and I have.... several nicknames for several other people at work, including dipshit, dipshidiosaurus, dipshidioraptor, foreskin, Boobs McGee, and more. We're grown up bullies but at least we don't call people names to their faces, we just snicker about it to each other!
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Jun 15, 2013 21:43:10 GMT -5
I can only think of three examples.
1. It was more teasing to piss me off than a nickname, but several people in middle school called me "spoon" because they were assholes.
2. Growing up, my sister had a friend called "fish" because she was big into swimming.
3. I had a friend in college who went by the name "Tink" short for "Tinkerbell." Her real name was Janus and I guess she didn't like it. She rejected "Janus" but could handle "Tink"? To each her own, I suppose. Would you say that Tada is bada than his dada?
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Post by Jake 48 on Jun 16, 2013 7:51:11 GMT -5
DW is Caa DSD is Pooh or Dolly by her mom, I call her Missy DS1 is BK DS2 goes by his given name Most of my nicknames involve adjectives and body parts
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2013 8:00:57 GMT -5
When I was younger much of my friends called me " Pocahontas" and some still do.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2013 8:13:11 GMT -5
When my younger son was about 2, we called his name and he said "No, I Shooby". And, we said what? And, he said "I Shooby". So, we have called him that ever since though at 15 he is none too fond of it. And, when he as fighting one time with his older brother, instead of yelling his brother's name, he yelled "No Tada!" So we call him Tada. Shooby, Our Son's nickname is Toka. We are not really sure where it came from.... Tada and Toka. Hum... something peculiar thing is going on here. Have a good one.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Jun 17, 2013 14:37:53 GMT -5
But Lassie . . . you missed the point. I HATE (absolutely) the nickname "Sue." I will never change my mind about that. Ever. I could have been Granny Sue from the beginning. But thanks for trying. So return to the whole Lizzie threat
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Jun 17, 2013 16:15:15 GMT -5
I'm not really sure I know anybody with a nickname. I'm thinking back through family, friends, classmates, workmates, and drawing a blank.
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Post by thyme4change on Jun 17, 2013 17:19:02 GMT -5
My son is trying to make "Typhoon" stick as his nickname. I like it.
When my kids grow up, I would like to be Nana. I think because I grew up around so many Jewish kids who were close to their Nanas. I had two Grandmothers and it was very formal and stuffy. Also, I love the fact that my kids have a "Grandma" and a "MomMom." It is like having two people with two different names. Easy to tell them apart. We don't have to add on an additional last name to tell them apart. But, that is just me. I realize that is a very personal feeling. I have one friend who was very, very close to her grandmother (she lived with her for a while when her mother was not able to care for her.) And she went by Grandma Dodo (her name was Dorothy.) So, when my friend had children her mother decided to be Grandma JuJu (her name was Julie.) They mostly dropped the Grandma part and just called them Dodo and JuJu. I thought that was cute, and have thought about using some form of my name, instead of Nana. But, my kids are 10 - so hopefully I have a decade and a half to worry about it.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Jun 17, 2013 19:51:11 GMT -5
Thymephoon?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2013 19:58:21 GMT -5
I was pregnant like a minute when my mom said, I'm Nana. She also changed my Gram to GG for great grandma. I had a MeMa. The kids Romanian gma is Bonica. The neighbor kids have a NinNin and a MeMe... I like those. My father's wife at the time my kids were born liked Jammy.
My daughter is a Maggie. Can still remember the first time I picked her up from camp and heard her grinds affectionately call her Maggot...
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Post by Gardening Grandma on Jun 17, 2013 21:41:59 GMT -5
Five years I've been posting on YM and NOW I find out I have a hooker's username!
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Post by raeoflyte on Jun 17, 2013 21:55:04 GMT -5
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